Romania’s first democratic leader with a divided heritage

Ien Ilisku, whose name is wrapped with the birth of modern Romania’s confusion, has died at the age of 95.

Career politicians, who imposed transition from the communism of the country to democracy, were a deeply divisive presence of a light and Romanian politics of both hopes.

His death on August 5 shows the end of the life spent in the middle of some dramatic and controversial moments of Romania.

“To understand the Eliska, we need to understand the complexity of Romania’s 1990s,” says political analyst Todor Tita.

“He was not a simple hero or a straightforward villain. He tangled the contradictions of a country struggling to bring themselves back on the past.”

December 29, 198. Illisku was published during the revolution of the revoltion, when Nicola suddenly and violently ended in the decades of Cessesku.

Initially, Romania welcomed the man in the new democratic era, the heritage of Isisku soon became more complicated.

In his leadership, in the delicate early starts of democracy and in terms of the last integration with the NATO and the European Union, the country went to his stable hand.

Nevertheless, Todor Tit has explained: “The collective memory of Romania – 1990 1990, has reluctantly disconnected the shade with the oppression of the protest, violent minerals and the old Communist structure.”

Born on March 1, Danube City, Danube City, Ilisku studied engineering in Moscow in Russia in the Stalin era, where he became active in the political circles of Romanian students.

It has never been proven that he was associated with the high-ranking communist figures, including Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union.

After returning to Romania, the Communist Party grew faster and put in the promotion and youth policy.

But his reformer lean eventually made him a target of CACSCU, who ignored him from the top of the party. In the 1980s, Isisku was out of politics and was working as a director in the educational publication of the government.

198. During the revolution of the revoltion, some of his re-emergence, which runs from December 1, 16-55, was seen as an opportunity, but others were stable during chaos.

As a leader of the National Salvation Front (FSN), the political organization established during the revolution became the interim president of the Illisku Romania and monitored the rapid eruption of CACSCU’s reign.

On Christmas day, Nicola Cessesku and his wife were hanged by the squad after a two -hour military base.

In 1990 1990, he won Democratic elections for more than 50 years of Romania with 85% of Dem 85% of the votes. But the campaign was alarmed by the dissolution and state-aligned propaganda against the liberal competitors.

After that year, Illiscu faced a growing protest from students and opposition supporters. Violence took place on the brutal road known as the Minoriads due to the infamous appeal to the mining workers to “restore” the capital to “restore”, during which dozens of injured were injured and many were killed.

After winning the 1992 1992 1929 elections, he gave another full deadline, then returned for the final presidency between 1 and 2 Between.

The revolution followed the revolution. The deep -rooted and insidious statistics of the Communist era remained intact, and the chairmanship of Elisku marked with broad corruption.

The critics argue that their reluctance to completely improve the judicial system or to deal with the inheritance of the security – the fearful secret police – allowed the punitive culture to take roots.

For more than three decades from the revolution, Romania is still struggling with political corruption and is one of the poorest and most corrupt members of the European Union – this is the reality that some have discovered the rule of Illisku.

During his later years in the office, Romania’s western integration progressed – including the membership of NATO and the closure of the EU EXSian discussion. There were also improvements in the market that opened small businesses and Romania accepted the first democratic constitution in 1999, 1999, which still shapes the country.

But in the early 1990 1990s, the Illisku remained a question mark about the bloodshed role.

In the context of the revolution of 19 1989 Revolution, and the Minoriads of 1990 1990, he was formally convicted of crimes against humanity. Legal proceedings were pulled for years without resolution.

After leaving the post, the Illisku Social Democratic Party (PSD) remained a respected person, finally appointed as a honorary president.

Later, he withdrew from a large number of public lives but occasionally made political commentary on his personal blog. In May 225, his final entry, President Nikusar Dan congratulated his election victory.

Ien Ilisku built a democracy of Romania, called Todor Tita, but it was also “a ruthless politician who was not afraid to struggle violently in the rival parts of the society”.

“As a politician, Ilisku was cruel, skilled and always keeping an eye on history.”